24th MARCH ~ HISTORY ON THIS DAY

March 24th ~ This Day in History video by History.com ~ 1839: OK enters national vernacular: The initials “O.K.” were first published in The Boston Morning Post on the 24th March 1839. It was meant as an abbreviation for “oll correct”, a popular slang misspelling of “all correct” at the time, OK steadily made its way into the everyday speech of Americans, then the World. During the late 1830s, it was a favorite practice among the younger, educated circles to misspell words intentionally, and abbreviate them as slang when talking to one another. In the 1830s the “in crowd” had a whole host of slang terms they abbreviated, such as “KY” for “No use” (“know yuse”), “KG” for “No go” (“Know go”), and “OW” for all right (“oll wright”), just as teenagers today have their own slang based on distortions of common words, such as “kewl” for “cool” and “DZ” for “these”. | & more about history on this day in the video…